CHILDREN AND SRI LANKA'S 
ARMED CONFLICT!

Sunday, December 12, 2004, 6-8 p.m.
Scarborough Civic Center
150 Borough Drive (northwest corner of McCowan &Ellesmere)

Sri Lanka’s twenty-one year civil war has taken a heavy toll on children, particularly in the north and east of the country. Many children have witnessed extreme violence during a war that has cost 60,000 lives. Many have lost their parents or other family members. Others have been displaced from their homes. Schools have been destroyed. Many youth have few job prospects. Many children participated directly in the war. 

Although the 2002 ceasefire has brought an end to active hostilities, it has not ended the recruitment of children for use as fighters. In August 2004, Human Rights Watch conducted an investigation in the eastern districts of Sri Lanka to document the on-going recruitment and use of children as soldiers.

Please join Human Rights Watch for a special event to discuss its investigation and the impact of Sri Lanka’s war on children. 

Speakers include: 

THE HONORABLE BOB RAE, Former Ontario Premier
JO BECKER, Human Rights Watch
Chair: NOAH NOVOGRODSKY, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Human Rights Watch conducts regular, systematic investigations of human rights abuses in some seventy countries around the world. It is an independent, nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide.

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